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Important Updates to GitHub Copilot for Students 🎒 #189268
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disappointed. |
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student pack is dead maybe remove it, its useless now |
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"GitHub's investment in students is not slowing down. We are committed to ensuring that Copilot remains a powerful, free tool for verified students, and we will continue to improve and expand the student experience over time." |
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It's time to switch to other LLM chatbots. In Abacus AI, you can access more than 10 top-tier models, especially Claude Opus, Claude Sonnet, GPT Pro, Gemini Pro, etc., all of which provide the latest versions, and you need to pay $10 (1st month $7) monthly with 20K (input+output) token limits. You can also add them to the VS Code extension and CLI. https://chatllm.abacus.ai/gRRcftllpt |
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Are you on the Zed Educational Plan but prefer coding in OpenCode? My mission is simple: i'm a student, as most of you, and i want to make advanced AI more accessible to all of us without forcing you to change your preferred workflow. Status: This is a beta release. To make this the best possible tool for students, I need your help. Please try it out, push its limits, and share your feedback. All advice, bug reports, and contributions are incredibly appreciated! |
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True meaning: "GitHub's investment in students is clearly grinding to a halt. We're 'committed' to making sure Copilot stays a half-baked, increasingly paywalled mess for verified students, and we'll keep half-assing and shrinking the student experience whenever we feel like it." |
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Downhill |
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I agree we should start building one, having studied everything about transformers and modifying VLMs, I definitely want to use that knowledge somehow |
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github should give the students the access of premium models so students could have experience about the industry level models. Although they should limit the usage of premium models |
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right because SLASHING vetted academic access to research tools is TOTALLY the way to go if it means you don't have to take a pay cut ... Jesus Christ man, where's your spine, GitHub? you have the moral backbone of a chocolate eclair. |
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cómo actualizar Google y borrar toda la historia de Google, limpiar la página borrar eliminar porque la información ya no la necesito borrar remover quitar Ver |
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not feel good disguisting |
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no sonnet and opus??? 😭😭😭 |
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very Disappointing |
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github should give the students the access of premium models so students could have experience about the industry level models. Although they should limit the usage of premium models |
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I have found a solution, switching to Claude Code. Is it a better product? Maybe, haven't used it enough. At least they don't forcibly stop me from using it though. Can't even remove myself from the education plan. BTW if you sign up for AWS and use Claude Code via Amazon Bedrock, it's completely free to sign up and you get 200USD in credit, with 6 months to use it. And unlike GitHub Copilot, they don't stop you from using models. It is a bit of a setup, but I can answer any questions if you need help. |
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still no appear ? im about to pay for copilot pro |
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How please contact |
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Nothing will change except you cannot use the good models anymore... thanks. |
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Everything is the same, you just have to pay the 10$ for Pro 😛 Ok, it feels ugly, I know. But maybe the best Option to finish an already begun project though. But since we are all developers, OpenSource might be the cheaper and better alternative in long term: |
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Copilot might be able to help you read comments and identify sarcasm |
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almost multi trillionaire company btw |
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github should give the students the access of premium models so students could have experience about the industry level models. Although they should limit the usage of premium models |
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I am also deeply disappointed, I signed up and got verified in the beginning of March and in little over a week the access to premium models was removed? Guess I wont be using CoPilot then... |
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Double it & give it to the next ai agrent. Thx. |
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There may be another solution. |
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github should give the students the access of premium models so students could have experience about the industry level models. Although they should limit the usage of premium models |
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Horrible change |
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Indeed |
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I completely disagree and am deeply disappointed with the decision to remove Claude Opus 4.6, Claude Sonnet 4.6, and GPT-4 from the models available in the Student plan. These are the models I use regularly and the ones that are truly useful. |
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For sure, they would have atleast left sonnet 4.6 |
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github should give the students the access of premium models so students could have experience about the industry level models. Although they should limit the usage of premium models |
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Disappointed |
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I completely disagree and am deeply disappointed with the decision to remove Claude Opus 4.6, Claude Sonnet 4.6, and GPT-4 from the models available in the Student plan. These are the models I use regularly and the ones that are truly useful. |
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github should give the students the access of premium models so students could have experience about the industry level models. Although they should limit the usage of premium models |
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AWS gives you 100USD credit to use with Claude models in Claude Code just for signing up, with another 100USD credit for doing some simple tasks. All you have to do is sign up |
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You Guys have done a very good thing , if you promise to give access to more and more students this is a necessary decision, however if you took something from students you should provide, some open source models for us , like kimi or deepseek something and others from Hugging face or something else |
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Why all this corporate nonsense text? Just say you want to cut cost and thus remove the expensive models. |
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When a company starts cutting costs to boost socalled "efficiency" , it is the death knell of its demise; healthy operations only bring more benefits to users. |
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up |
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It's Microsoft. They ruin everything they touch. |
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It even gets worse since they are divorced, you know what I mean 😇 |
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chatgp wrote the text |
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yes it is. atleast sonnet. yup bye bye github |
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I completely disagree and am deeply disappointed with the decision to remove Claude Opus 4.6, Claude Sonnet 4.6, and GPT-4 from the models available in the Student plan. These are the models I use regularly and the ones that are truly useful. |
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Trillion dollar company like Microsoft couldn't possibly be so cheap on some college kids right? Cheap ass shareholder's company with zero social responsibility and commitment. |
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@martinwoodward Please reconsider this change. Many students relied specifically on models like Sonnet and Opus for studying, research, and solving complex programming problems. These models were the reason Copilot was so helpful for us. Without them, Copilot becomes far less useful for academic work. Most students cannot afford paid plans, so this change does not push us to upgrade it only pushes us away from using Copilot. We respectfully ask you to restore at least limited access to these models for students. |
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AWS gives you 100USD credit to use with Claude models in Claude Code just for signing up, with another 100USD credit for doing some simple tasks. All you have to do is sign up |
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Thanks! Switching over to AWS as we speak, got 100 USD credits off the bat, and already got 60USD additionally, and I can use Claude Sonnet 4.6 or Opus. Bye, GitHub! |
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Bad system |
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common Microslop L |
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Keep advanced models, don't be greedy!! |
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I completely disagree and am deeply disappointed with the decision to remove Claude Opus 4.6, Claude Sonnet 4.6, and GPT-4 from the models available in the Student plan. These are the models I use regularly and the ones that are truly useful. |
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sybau |
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@ghaif You have to understand there are verified educators here who are saying this. the fre eplan runs out the moment you graduate so I think its justified, plus there are so many more solutions like more rate limiting or day wise limiting or making the requests 10x instead of 1 x or 3x but gatekeeping the models, that just shows no cinsideration. We have to also remember that Microsoft & Github ensure that these same students who eventually join / start ocmpanies will take the familiarity of these tools with them. |
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it's not being greedy, it's about betraying us with no notice. Look at the recent changes made to Scratch. They changed their ToS to something very anti-user friendly and terrible. Scratch is completely free though, so we shouldn't be mad about something that's free, right? Is that what you're saying? Your family didn't have to raise you. They didn't have to feed you or care for you. So if your family stopped helping you ever at all without any notice, would you be sad? |
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As we are using Claude opus , but suddenly you removed . We need back as this is not mentioned you can remove |
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This is just greedy. |
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What? What's going on, why can he still use the student plan even though he has a job? Isn't this supposed to help us students??? |
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bro putting same replies for every comment @danividalg |
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bro he might be a teacher. Educational plan if for both students and teachers |
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Also, please do not make assumptions about people based on their age or how they look. Folks can be life long learners and go back to school at any time. |
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You're right.. maybe he is a lifelong learner. But so are we 😭😭 I was grinding every day, actually learning and trying to build real stuff. And I really need you to bring back Claude Opus! Force tighter limits, cap the PRUs at 100/month, whatever.. just please don't take it away completely 🙏😭 |
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Is there still a chance that Sonnet and Opus gets selected by Auto? |
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They shut it down as well, the new error is: Model not supported for the sonnet and opus. |
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I exactly got this error and came searching here for an answer just to find this comment
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I guess the only option that remains is github pro plan |
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same here, it`s started today |
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Like I said earlier, please don't discuss these matters here... There's still a way to use them, but you'll have to do your own testing since I'd rather avoid GitHub fixing more crap... |
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disappointed |
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I completely disagree and am deeply disappointed with the decision to remove Claude Opus 4.6, Claude Sonnet 4.6, and GPT-4 from the models available in the Student plan. These are the models I use regularly and the ones that are truly useful. |
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Yes |
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This update made Claude completely useless. |
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yeah let's make an even bigger gap between huge research orgs and public ! yay! |
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Microslop is back |
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I don't know how can they can take this step as they know these are the only models that people use and make best of their project very much disappointed |
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now we back to the era of time consume |
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To be honest, we're going backwards with this. |
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AWS gives you 100USD credit to use with Claude models in Claude Code just for signing up, with another 100USD credit for doing some simple tasks. All you have to do is sign up |
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L |
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Guys use GitHub copilot cli it still has opus 4.5... |
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Are you on the Zed Educational Plan but prefer coding in OpenCode? My mission is simple: i'm a student, as most of you, and i want to make advanced AI more accessible to all of us without forcing you to change your preferred workflow. Status: This is a beta release. To make this the best possible tool for students, I need your help. Please try it out, push its limits, and share your feedback. All advice, bug reports, and contributions are incredibly appreciated! |
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Important to note that zed educational plan is non renewable and 1 year only. |
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What this actually means is, "GitHub's investment in students is clearly grinding to a halt. We're 'committed' to making sure Copilot stays a half-baked, increasingly paywalled mess for verified students, and we'll keep half-assing and shrinking the student experience whenever we feel like it." |
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im so motherfuckng dissapointeedddddddddddddd why you'll remove the opportunity for the student |
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"Common People" - Black Mirror (IYKYK) |
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once reply the discussion once you spammed my email
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Now the whole Copilot feels… entirely cursed 😂 In my 16 days of using Copilot, I manually selected Claude Sonnet maybe 3 or 4 times total. Why? Because Auto mode was already smart enough to switch to it whenever my prompts needed serious brainpower. It felt like magic. Now imagine Auto mode without Sonnet!. it’s like removing the engine from a car and saying, "Don’t worry, the wheels are still there." I’ve already seen cases where even 10 different prompts using GPT-5.3-Codex or Gemini Pro still struggle to give reliable solutions, and sometimes GPT-5.3-Codex gives code that doesn’t even compile without errors. That’s when Sonnet used to swoop in like a superhero and save the day And honestly, I never even tried Claude Opus, I heard it was expensive, so I avoided using it when Sonnet was already doing the job perfectly. I thought I was being economical, turns out I was just saving something that would disappear anyway. What a plot twist 😅 |
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It sounds like your ChatGPT is working fine though. |
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Not all the time. 5.3 sometimes shows errors or takes a long time to respond after a couple of prompts. A lot of people are using it now as a replacement for 5.4. |
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As a verified student, I was extremely disappointed by the March 12, 2026 changes to the GitHub Copilot Student plan. GitHub says this is necessary “to keep Copilot free and accessible for millions of students”. But let’s be honest:
This change didn’t make Copilot “free for everyone”. It made it "useless for serious student work". We’re not abusing the system — we’re learning and building real projects. Removing the best models while keeping the same PRU limits is not “sustainability”, it’s just cutting corners on the future developers you claim to support. GitHub’s "most valuable asset is not the models or the infrastructure" — it is the "students*" We are the ones who create the next big things. Just a few weeks ago a 20-year-old Chinese undergraduate student Guo Hangjiang built "MiroFish" (github.com/666ghj/MiroFish) — a groundbreaking open-source multi-agent AI simulation engine that topped global GitHub Trending, got 33k+ stars in days and attracted millions in funding. One student. One laptop. With AI coding assistants. Mark Zuckerberg built Facebook while he was a student at Harvard. Linus Torvalds started Linux as a student. Countless world-changing open-source ecosystems, tools and companies were born in student dorm rooms and GitHub repos. Students are not just “users who come and go”. We are the future of the entire developer ecosystem that GitHub claims to support. But right now you are "depriving your most valuable asset" of the best tools. You are not “preserving the community”. You are "losing it". By taking away the best models you are telling students: “your serious projects are no longer welcome here for free”. Many will simply leave for Claude.ai, Cursor, or other tools. Please reconsider. The future of GitHub depends on the students you are now limiting. Please either:
Thank you for reading. Hope the team reconsiders. |
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can we run any campaign to bring back sonnet opus ?? |
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Yes, 100% — let's do it! 🔥 |
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Based on my time working at Microsoft for two years, I’ve seen that the company mainly focuses on making profits and serving big business customers. Students often get early access to tools and free services, but it's more like a testing ground—helping Microsoft improve products before rolling them out to paying enterprise clients. Once testing is done, those free offerings usually don’t last. So, campaigns asking Microsoft to keep them rarely work. Their business model just isn’t built around long-term support for individual users. |
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This is the worst possible change. At the very least, it should be a reduction in premium requests instead of a complete ban. |
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disappointed |
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utterly disappointed |
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The current system feels unnecessarily restrictive and poorly justified. |
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Guys, this is free, Pay with your money, stop asking for free stub. |
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we still able to use sonnet and opus 4.5 i think these still good models |
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If I'm not wrong u are talking about copilot cli mode |
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i guess it opus 4.5 was not there but it is now
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how you got ?? opus paid or bug ??? |
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Copilot Cli |
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but in arch linux vs code its not showing in windows its showing opus and sonnet how?? |
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Damn, we're cooked |
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At GitHub, we believe the next generation of developers should have access to the latest industry technology. That’s why we provide students with free access to the GitHub Student Developer Pack, run the Campus Experts program to help student leaders build tech communities, and partner with Major League Hacking (MLH) and Hack Club to support student hackathons and youth-led coding communities. It’s also why we offer verified students free access to GitHub Copilot—today, nearly two million students are using it to build, learn, and explore new ideas.
Copilot is evolving quickly, with new capabilities, models, and experiences shipping fast. As Copilot evolves and the student community continues to grow, we need to make some adjustments to ensure we can provide sustainable, long-term GitHub Copilot access to students worldwide.
Our commitment to providing free access to GitHub Copilot for verified students is not changing. What is changing is how Copilot is packaged and managed for students.
What this means for you
Starting today, March 12, 2026, your complimentary Copilot access will be managed under a new GitHub Copilot Student plan, alongside your existing GitHub Education benefits. Your academic verification status will not change, and there is nothing you need to do to continue using Copilot. You will see that you are on the GitHub Copilot Student plan in the UI, and your existing premium request unit (PRU) entitlements will remain unchanged.
As part of this transition, however, some premium models, including GPT-5.4, and Claude Opus and Sonnet models, will no longer be available for self-selection under the GitHub Copilot Student Plan. We know this will be disappointing, but we’re making this change so we can keep Copilot free and accessible for millions of students around the world.
That said, through Auto mode, you'll continue to have access to a powerful set of models from providers such as OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google. We'll keep adding new models and expanding the intelligence in Auto mode that helps match the right model to your task and workflow. We support a global community of students across thousands of universities and dozens of time zones, so we’re being intentional about how we roll out changes. Over the coming weeks, we will be making additional adjustments to available models or usage limits on certain features — the specifics of which we'll be testing with your feedback.
We want your input
Your experience matters to us, and your feedback will directly shape how this plan evolves. Leave a comment below, what's working for you, what gets in the way, and what you need most. We will also be continuing to host 1:1 conversations with students, educators, and Campus Experts, and using insights from our recent November 2025 student survey to help inform what's next.
GitHub's investment in students is not slowing down. We are committed to ensuring that Copilot remains a powerful, free tool for verified students, and we will continue to improve and expand the student experience over time.
We will share updates as we learn more from testing and your feedback. Thank you for building with us.
Update March 13: We've now added the option so folks can upgrade from your GitHub Copilot Student plan to a paid GitHub Copilot Pro or GitHub Copilot Pro+ plan if you want to, while retaining the rest of your GitHub Student Pack benefits.
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